THE HIDDEN MYSTERY OF THE BIBLE - Neville Goddard Books

THE HIDDEN MYSTERY

OF THE BIBLE

By

Jack Ensign Addington

Copyright ? 1969 Dodd, Mead & Company, New York.

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PREFACE

This book is not an attempt to interpret the entire Bible, but to show through examples how a secret code unlocks the hidden meaning throughout the writings of the Bible.

In trying to understand the seemingly meaningless portions of the Bible, it became apparent to me that certain words, about one hundred to be exact, had been used over and over in identically the same way, often making no sense in or out of context, as one would use a secret code to hide a meaning that he did not wish exposed to the public. I tested this again and again and found it to be true. I found that once these code words were translated a door was opened to a whole new area of understanding.

The Bible is really an anthology, a collection of choice literary extracts from different authors, some relating to the spiritual side of life; some seeming to be written on the mental and physical. There is something of value for everyone at every level.

The material contained in the Bible is but a fraction of the original writings from which it was selected. The Biblical writings are revealed Truth which was preserved by word of mouth and gradually became written literature, the work of many spiritually minded authors. Later, groups of theologians made the selections which we think of as the Bible, deciding, according to their individual prejudices, what they judged worthy of keeping, what they would discard. For example, the Apocrypha, which is incorporated in the Vulgate, is generally omitted in Protestant versions of the Bible. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls also gives evidence that much material was omitted from the Bible as we know it.

Various Bible concordances, encyclopedias, and dictionaries were used in researching the original meanings of the proper names. The secret code was revealed to me as a gradual unfoldment during twenty years of Bible teaching. I am particularly indebted to the Unity School of Christianity at Lee's Summit, Missouri, for their excellent Metaphysical Bible Dictionary.

Great credit goes to my wife, Cornelia, whose enthusiasm and persistence in pursuing this idea kept us working for the twelve years that it took to write this book. Without her endless work on the manuscript, it would not have been accomplished. I am also indebted to my many students who, year after year, begged for copies of the material presented in my classes and for a

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book on the subject, thus prompting me to put the material down in written form.

I wish to express grateful appreciation to Frances Brown who has been tireless in typing and retyping this manuscript and to Stella Terrill Mann whose encouragement, after carefully studying the manuscript, gave us a new incentive. Others who read the manuscript and gave helpful suggestions were Cornelia W. Sherman and Suzanne Huntzinger.

J.E.A.

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INTRODUCTION

This book had to be written. The need compelled it. The largest selling book in the English language is the Bible; and, yet, few people understand what it has to say. Because of this need, various translations have altered the original King James Version published in 1611. Some were helpful in certain areas, but mostly they tended to lose the beautiful mystical feeling underlying the words of the King James Version. In each generation there have been those who felt that the language of the Bible was archaic, that it should be modernized. Modernizing the language helped some to better understand the Bible in a literal, or historic, way, but left large areas completely misunderstood, especially those areas where an understanding of symbols, parables, allegories and such are required.

The Bible is a compilation of treatises on nearly every facet of man's life. Within its covers modern psychology will find all that it has to teach. It is the ultimate philosophy. It shows us how to commune with the unseen Power within each one of us. It shows us how to take dominion in our lives through the use of the Power. It is the story of every man in his journey through life, his mental and spiritual growth. The obstacles and problems he meets are presented in an understandable way.

The mystics of the ages have rather sensed than interpreted the deep esoteric meanings hidden within certain words of the Bible. Never before has a usable, workable key been presented. I humbly offer it here that the Bible may become a more understandable book, not just a book for the religious but a guidebook for every man. It may ultimately become man's greatest possession, the answer book for every problem that can ever come into his experience.

That which I have to offer began with the discovery that modern-day readers were completely overlooking the meanings behind certain proper names of people and places, continually featured in Biblical writing, meanings that the ancient writers had taken for granted and assumed would always be understood. I found that certain numbers and common words had a repetitious use and that when their symbolic or esoteric meaning was understood, they opened up entirely new avenues of wisdom and understanding. Herein lies the key to the hidden mysteries that have been concealed in the Bible for so many years.

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